Chapter 146 Emerald Leisure Garden
The Hedge Village within the territory of Mokou Town is located on the edge of a dense bush closest to the Stormhorn Mountains.
The economic foundation here is based on the logging industry. Although it was blocked by the druids from the Emerald Garden, the priests of the Church of the Earth Mother have enough experience in the cultivation and protection of the forest. After a series of negotiations over logging and land reclamation, a tentative settlement was reached.
As long as you stand on the river bank of Hedge Village, you can see the forest where the druids live.
There is nothing dangerous in the forest. The plants are wild and lush. Every ray of sunlight that penetrates from the branches and leaves of the tall trees will be immediately absorbed by the young trees and plants.
Although under their branches, the dead branches and decaying trunks, as well as the dying remains of the oldest trees, gave people an oppressive and ominous silence, there was none here.
On the contrary, this forest ruled by druids is full of life.
Insects buzzed and fluttered, lizards crawled underfoot, beetles shone like iridescence, thousands of spiders crawled through the dewy webs, woodpeckers pecked at the tree trunks, and grouse chirped. .
The sun is warm and the heat is rising in the forest.
The five druids who live in seclusion here to protect the forest are sitting around a marble table, playing Rafat, a strategic card game, comfortably.
"Hearts!"
"Spades!"
"Fuck! Old deer, look what you have done, you empty-headed fool! Are you fucking blind? Calling cards Why don’t you call me Heart? Do you think I’m calling you Heart for fun?” Steam, yelling: "Fuck! I'm going to knock your lungs out, I really want to use my horns to give you a good kick!"
"You brainless bull head, shut up! I have four in my hand A spade, the biggest is a jack, I just want to call it more safely!" An old-looking druid wearing a antler wooden helmet on his head said impatiently as he looked at the cards in his hand.
"Four spades, yes, yes! When you lower your head and count the cards, you should also include your own dick! Use your brain, old deer." The Tauren Druid said reluctantly:
"We are not praying in the temple! We are playing cards! Remember, as long as you get good cards and don't make big mistakes, a fool can beat a wise man. Call the cards, bear."
"Diamond. "A burly druid wearing a furry animal skin cloak immediately played his cards.
“Hey, Diamond Slam!” Drew, who was called ‘Old Deer’ by the tauren, smiled.
"Haha, the king lent the diamond, but lost the crown, and finally escaped from the kingdom naked. Look at me doubling the spades!" The young druid wearing a crow feather cloak smiled slightly and threw out a card Card.
"Bucket!" The old Druid frowned and threw out a card.
"Wake up, old deer. Someone has already called it twice! What the hell do you want to call?" The tauren druid cursed again.
“Haha, look at my Diamond Grand Slam!”
“No more. Hey! What’s going on now? No one dares to add more? Are you scared, guys? You go first Play your cards, bear." The tauren grinned and said to the young druid wearing a crow feather cloak:
"Little crow, if you dare to wink at the bear again, I will wink at your handsome little face. I’ll slap you so hard that you won’t even be able to open your eyes next winter.”
"J!"
"Q!"
"K, press! Kill your Q! Haha, I didn't expect it, I still have a heart, and this is what I have been waiting for! J, Q, there is one more..." The tauren showed an expression of wanting to be beaten, and shouted excitedly: "There is also a trump card! If the trump card is not played well, the game will be one-sided. Cube! How about it, little crow?” "The young druid who was called 'Little Crow' looked at the tauren with a look of disgust, and the others nodded in agreement.
Just then.
A beautiful nightingale landed on the shoulder of a half-elf woman who kept her distance from the four people throughout.
The nightingale combed its feathers with its beak, then hovered above her head, making a clear and sweet bird song.
"Everyone, we seem to be in trouble."
The beautiful half-elf waved his hand gently, and the nightingale disappeared deep into the forest, and then said to everyone, "There is one There are about 500 jackals and orcs rushing towards us.”
Hearing this, the druids stopped what they were doing and looked over.
The Tauren Druid, who was in sight of victory, saw that no one was playing their cards, and suddenly became anxious, and urged unhappily, "Bear, play your cards quickly, it's your turn!"
'Bear' Druid glared at the tauren, ignored his request, closed the card, put it on the table, and looked at the half-elf, "What is the specific situation?"
"Maybe it's with Mokou Town. "It must be related to the war." The half-elf woman said, "These humanoid creatures ran towards several small villages in Mokou Town as if they were dying."
"There must be something fishy when something goes wrong." The old Druid put down his cards and frowned, "They are most likely instigated by the Ban followers of the Zhentarim. If this continues, Mokou Town may be in chaos again."
"You don't care about them, as long as they don't provoke us."
The Tauren Druid impatiently added, "Besides, those people in Mokou Town The civilians who have been released from their slave status have begun to clear up a large area of land here. If we don’t stop it, our forest will be demolished soon. Hurry up and show your cards!”
But no! When people ignored him, the young druid threw his crow feather cloak behind him and said with a smile, "Although our main goal is to protect nature, this does not mean that we will become a direct enemy of the development of civilized races. I I think we should work together with the people of Mokou Town to promote the prosperity and health of nature instead of using violence to prevent human development."
He looked around the forest and said: " As long as they are not deforestation indiscriminately, we can allow loggers to work in forest areas where inferior trees need to be eliminated.”
"You must be fascinated by that girl Kalena." A hint of displeasure appeared on the expression of 'Bear' Druid, and he said seriously:
"The principles of our Emerald Leisure Garden are: Protect the original appearance of nature, control human expansion, recognize that forests are not the only thing in nature, agree that magic should not be used to cause large-scale destruction, and warn against the abuse of magic to prevent unexpected side effects."
"The little crow was deceived by the Earth Mother Goddess." The tauren laughed.
“I’m not kidding you.” The young druid glanced at the tauren with an unhappy face, and said seriously:
“What they said is not wrong. Besides, I I went to Mokou Town with Canary and secretly observed this lord from the Kingdom of Cormyr. I think it is very necessary to find a lord worthy of our cooperation. After all, we want to control the gradual change of Enoch. It is simply impossible to achieve this in the desert with just our few people. We must rely on the collective strength from civilized races.”
"Are you going too far?" The old Druid wearing antlers interrupted their conversation, "The issue we are discussing now is..."
"Yes, our issue now is when the bear should show up." The card is up, hurry up, I have been losing for so many days, and I am about to win!" The tauren picked up his card and urged: "Play the card, play the card!"
"The jackal man! The orcs are coming soon, and they must be driven away in advance. This is not the place they should come."
The 'Bear' Druid looked into the depths of the jungle, "What if these people are brainless. It would be troublesome to burn our forest.”
“What a f*ck!”
The tauren said unhappily, "Don't worry, believe me, they don't have the courage. If they dare to set fire in the forest, I will eat this table on the spot. Play your cards quickly, and we won't chase them after the cards are played." Chi."
As soon as he finished speaking, a violent explosion sounded, and a raging fire ignited in the forest, with smoke rising into the sky.
Seeing this situation, the Druids' expressions changed, and the cards they picked up were put back again.
"Hahaha" looking at the direction of the burning fire, the tauren gloated and said, "Little crow, hurry up and put out the fire, otherwise your hut will be burned down soon"
"Fuck !" Before he finished speaking, his expression suddenly changed and he cursed: "These sons of bitches actually set my house on fire."
After saying that, he threw away the cards in his hand and prepared to rush over to put out the fire.
“Oh, wait a minute!” The young druid called ‘Little Crow’ stopped the anxious tauren and said with a half-smile:
“Did you forget something? One thing, who just said that if they dare to set fire in the forest, they will eat this table on the spot. Eat the table first, and then I will let you go."
Other druids also looked at it. The tauren's eyes were meaningful, as if to say: If you don't eat this table, you can never leave.
The half-elf Druid did not participate in this farce. She spread her arms, turned into a falcon, and disappeared in the direction of the burning fire.
"..."
Feeling the unkind eyes of everyone, the tauren was frightened. He took a deep breath, lay on the ground, and transformed at a speed visible to the naked eye into a body covered with a dark golden carapace, which looked like A cross between a centaur and an ant.
The Fermi Golden Ants in the Mechanical Realm!
When the three druids saw the change in the tauren's appearance, their eyes suddenly became very strange.
Immediately afterwards, the adamantine ant opened its giant jaws that were as sharp as jagged edges, and the marble table in front of it was eaten clean like jelly beans.
"Let's go, hiss, kill these sons of bitches, who dare to burn our forest."
The Tauren Druid, who turned into an adamantium ant, rubbed his giant jaws with a shining metallic color, and used At an extremely fast speed, he rushed towards the direction of the gnolls and orcs.
In just a moment, the clear sky was quickly covered by dark clouds.
A series of crackling and jumping lightnings kept falling into the group of jackals and orcs who had just arrived at the edge of the forest and did not know what was going on.
In an instant, screams came one after another.
(End of this chapter)